What’s Behind the DOJ Request for Voting Documents in North Carolina?

According to two now-retired senior North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement(BOE) officials — Gary Bartlett, its former executive director, who served for 20 years in that post, and Marshall Tutor, his top investigator — the federal prosecutor’s office and top federal prosecutor seeking those millions of recordsin North Carolina’s most heavily Latino counties on behalf of the DOJ and ICE refused to prosecute an elaborate ballot-box stuffing case involving registering non-citizens a decade ago. That case, which the two North Carolina BOE officials referred to federal prosecutors, centered around an early campaign by one of North Carolina’s most powerful current leaders — its Senate Republican majority whip.